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Originally Posted by lwarmonger
The Communist Party has gone for a softer form of domination than existed in Mao's day, with the goal of shaping the newfound nationalist sentiment of the Chinese population to the Communist Parties ends... much the way Bismark and the autocracy of the Kaisers did in Germany.
China is controlling the information and spin that reaches the Chinese population in order to produce a desired result... over the long term, that is a much more effective way to rule than the old Stalinist and Maoist models.
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This is true, but I would say CCP is forced to do these rather than a well planed shrift. They are reluctant to change and the political change always lag behind the economic development.
Say the evolution of text books I have gone through. they were pretty the same propaganda as it was 50 years ago when I was in the primary school, full of stuff about Soviet leaders and war heroes of PLA, even in math problems. That is already in the 90's. Of course as a kit, I don't even know what they are talking about, but it really amuses me now.
Then came the middle school, after several revise of the text books, these ridiculous stories finally went away. However, political and historical classes are still dominated by propagandas. But guess what? Most schools focuses on math, physics, English class, so that their students can be competitive in the infamous National College Entrance Exams. No one were serious learning these propagandas, and those who actually did, were usually mocked by others (me, for one
, damn free speech, I was just curious).
By the time of college, propaganda classes are so under presented that the lecturers themselves got embarrassed. These didn't get replaced after the complains went public for many years. And the new softer versions, although a lot better, are still apparently biased. The result? CCP has lost trust among the young, failing to recruit a single member in my class.
Controlling the information and spin that reaches the Chinese population in order to produce a desired result? A miserable failure domestically, well at least seems to me. You may be alarmed by the national emotions all over the world lately, but if you look closely those are actually more free minded Chinese who has been living in the west, even Taiwanese. The reactions of "brain-washed" domestics are actually milder. CCP even attempts to pacify the anger in the fear of foreign relationship by heavy censoring of any "anit-French" content. They are run by capitalists nowadays who cares more about their own wallets.
The whole point is, CCP is now actually driven by the free market rather than drive it as they had hoped.